...shore. I hear Great Grandmother singing, singing through me. Robert Louis Stevenson Nineteenth century FAIR the fall of songs When the singer sings them....— After the singer is dead And the maker buried. Learn Something Beneficial 141 I greatly desire that youth, which, after all, should and must be trained...

...is inscribed not with a Latin epitaph but with Stevenson's own poetry on the enduring life of words: BRIGHT is the ring of words When the right man rings...carried — After the singer is dead And the maker buried.3 1. Quoted in Homer Saint-Gaudens, ed.. The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 2 vols....

...a wide time-scale through subtle cross-reference and allusion. 6 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings...carried After the singer is dead And the maker buried. Robert Louis Stevenson: Songs of Travel Ralph Vaughan Williams's songs span his long career, the first...

...Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) aptly echoed the sentiments of the time when he wrote in Songs of Travel: "Bright is the ring of words/ When the right man rings them." Intellectuals in these early days of literary study worried that literature lacked its own body of...

...Robert Louis Stevenson (who knew his Schubert, incidentally), when, in his Songs of Travel, he wrote: Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them. We performers all long to be that right man or woman; words must be made to ring with beautiful sound,...

...added, "Oh, by the way, Louise rang a few minutes ago. She was looking for Hazel as well." 20 -sFair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are caroled and said— On wings they are carried — After the singer is dead And the maker buried. —ROBERT...

...that there had been no disintegration, no slow failure when he could no longer compose. LATE HARVEST 'Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.' There is little doubt that Finzi considered himself such a man. In the final year of his life he had...

...him which carries on from generation to generation, long after the sound of his own voice is silent: Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings...carried, After the singer is dead And the maker buried? 1 Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Bright is the Ring of Words', lines I— 8, from Songs of Travel. Vaughan...

...carries on from generation to generation, long after the sound of his own voice is silent : — • " Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings...carried, After the singer is dead And the maker buried." CENTENARIES OF 1921. BY GEORGE E. DUNN. (Concluded from page 47.) II. DEATH CENTENARIES. IT is inevitable...

...literature, and especially of poetry, is likely to read ephemeral trash in later life. As Stevenson says : Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings...Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them; and, whether we define poetry, with Coleridge, as "the best words in the best order" or, with Wordsworth,...